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Market reforms and efficiency gains in Chile
Bergoeing, Raphael; Hernando, Andrés; Repetto, Andrea - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 2, pp. 217-242
Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant … partially accounted for the improvement in manufacturing performance. -- plant dynamics ; productivity ; manufacturing ; Chile …
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Industrielle Entwicklung : Deutschland und Frankreich driften auseinander
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 48, pp. 3-14
The significance of the manufacturing sector for the economies of both the European Union and the euro area has … particularly evident in a comparison between Germany and France. The manufacturing industry in Germany was able to maintain its … rapid deindustrialization in France: here, value added from the manufacturing sector as a percentage of the overall economy …
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The impact of mining and services industries on the structural change of Australia
Gurrib, Ikhlaas - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 35-51
Both services and mining industries gained relatively more importance in the structural changes occurring, particularly in recent years, where the rate of structural change has increased. The study aims at defragmenting the mining and services industries, and analyses their impacts on structural...
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The balanced scorecard, alphabet of the modern management : from concept to implement
Kootanaee, Akbar Javadian; Kootanaee, Hamidreza Javadian; … - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 47-60
The balanced scorecard is one of the most successful, endurable management concepts in recent years. The balanced scorecard is a performance measurement tool developed in 1992 by Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan and management consultant David P. Norton. Kaplan and Norton's...
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Key sectors of the Namibian economy
Humavindu, Michael N.; Stage, Jesper - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 2 (2013), pp. 1-15
The present paper presents key sector research for the Namibian economy, based on input–output and Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) analyzes. The analyses were derived from a Namibian SAM for the 2004 period, using 28 economic sectors. We find that mining and government services are currently...
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Analysis of pollution industrial transfer based on environmental regulation and public participation : China’s case
Peng, Wen-bin; Wu, Wei-ping - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 4, pp. 11-20
Referring to 1995-2011 China's provincial panel data, this paper constructs an econometric model consisting of environmental regulation, public participation and pollution industrial transfer, and mainly focuses on the role of environmental regulation and public participation in the pollution...
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Die Industrie - ein wichtiger Treiber der Nachfrage nach Dienstleistungen
Edler, Dietmar; Eikelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 34, pp. 16-23
The manufacturing sector is a major purchaser of services and therefore has a significant impact on growth in the … service sector. Conversely, there is not as much impetus generated by services to the manufacturing sector. In 2009 … structure of an economy falls short. It both underestimates the importance of the manufacturing sector and overestimates that of …
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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation
Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54
During the last decades, traditional manufacturing firms in Western economies have undergone a rapid transformation … increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a prerequisite for a successful transformation process and this paper …, growth potentials and age of the firm while a traditional characteristic like size does not influence the decision to …
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Befristete Beschäftigung hat keinen Einfluss auf die betriebliche Arbeitsproduktivität
Nielen, Sebastian; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 21, pp. 14-17
-- fixed-term employment ; labor productivity ; manufacturing …
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Forschende Unternehmen schneiden besser ab
Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 35, pp. 3-14
steady growth in the contribution made by research-based companies to total manufacturing output and to employment. Moreover …
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